Lieberman: A Public Option Would Need A Taxpayer ‘Bailout’

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Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) — a key health care player fresh off his apparent declaration that he’d filibuster a public health insurance option with the GOP — seemed to try to link health care reform with the country’s bailout outrage and fatigue in a video clip played on Fox News last night.

Once you set a national government insurance company up, no matter what you say at the beginning, if it hits hard times, they’re gonna come to the Congress to bail them out. And who’s going to pay for that bailout? The taxpayers.

Here’s the video:

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